Laptop Screen Size

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Laptop Screen Size?

  • Smaller than 15"

    Votes: 1 5.3%

  • 15" - 15.6"

    Votes: 10 52.6%

  • 17" or larger

    Votes: 8 42.1%
  • Total voters
    19
  • Poll closed .
Mine are listed as 15", but fall just under. For me it's the ideal compromise between weight and viewability.

My gig machines are Dell Inspiron i5 (one a 2nd gen, one a 3rd). One has 16Gb, one 12Gb. Both have 500Gb drives.
 
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My work laptop is a 17" Lenovo, full HD, etc. and it weighs a ton .. the power brick is almost as large as some tablets.

One correction, my laptops are Dell Latitudes, not Inspirons .. I do have an Inspiron, but my wife uses it. The Latitude line is their business line and I have a docking station that the laptop snaps onto to make all connections if needed.
 
15.6"
2 Sony Core i7
2 ASUS Core i5

Sony I removed the optical drives so they now have 2 internal 1TB drives.
ASUS have 750 GB internal drives and use 2 external LaCie 2 TB HD (One is the backup)

Sony 12 GB RAM
ASUS 8 GB RAM

Still have my Dell Studio laptops and they are now used as controllers for Chauvet's Xpress lighting.
 
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My DJ laptop:
  • Screen/Graphics: 15.6" - Dedicated Radeon HD 6490M
  • CPU: Intel i5-2410M 2x 2.30 GHz (hyper-threaded so, 4 logical cores)
  • RAM: 8GB
  • Drive: 750 GB
  • Brand: HP
My web surfing laptop:
  • Screen/Graphics: 17.3" - Integrated Intel HD
  • CPU: Intel Core i3-350M 2x 2.26 GHz
  • RAM: 8GB
  • Drive: 500 GB
  • Brand: Toshiba
The laptop I got for my partner (used for web surfing):
  • Screen/Graphics: 15.6" - Integrated AMD Radeon HD 7420G
  • CPU: AMD A4-4300M 2x 2.5 GHz
  • RAM: 6GB
  • Drive: 750 GB
  • Brand HP
They're all good for what they're for... I'd never use anything bigger than 15.6 for DJing or anything smaller than 17" for personal use and at the end of the day my laptops don't need to be super powerful; that's what my desktop is for.
 
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All three of mine are HPs and all three are 17". All three have two 1tb internal 2.5" drives (most HP 17" units have two internal drive bays they don't tell you about), are Win 7 with 4gb ram, AMD Turion X2 Dual core 2.20ghz, with ATI HD-3200 graphics.

My home/office computer fried and for the past month or two, I've been using one of the laptops as a sub. If it weren't for the docking station feature, this would have been a nightmare of a time frame. As it is, I can take my time deciding which way to go. Thank you, HP. Unlike my previous debacles with Sony VAIOs lappies, you've been a rock.
 
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I think user experience will be determined with 'level / grade' of machine purchased. The Vaio used to be the king in the Sony computer world. Now they even have entry level Vaio's. I've had really good luck with the mid to high grade Sony Vaio's, Toshiba Satellite's and Macbook / Macbook Pro's. Not so much with HP or Gateway, regardless of grade. The Lenovo Thinkpad seems ok. YMMV.
 
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I think user experience will be determined with 'level / grade' of machine purchased. The Vaio used to be the king in the Sony computer world. Now they even have entry level Vaio's. I've had really good luck with the mid to high grade Sony Vaio's, Toshiba Satellite's and Macbook / Macbook Pro's. Not so much with HP or Gateway, regardless of grade. The Lenovo Thinkpad seems ok. YMMV.
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I worked with a Viao a friend of mine paid $1300 for brand new a couple years back. I wasn't very impressed. For $1200 you should have more than 4GB RAM out of the gate, IMHO. I regularity brought the machine to it's knees just running Chrome, Skype, and Firefox. Other than that the machine was fine though.

Recently, I bought a Lenovo for three reasons. 1) I've always heard good things about them. 2) A friend gave me an old Thinkpad (circa 2005) and I was really impressed with it's build quality and how well it held up over the years. I maxed out the RAM, threw Xubuntu on it, then gave it to a friend for Skyping with his grandkids. He loves it. 3) I really like the Trackpoint.

My Lenovo is decent but I didn't realize I was buying the 'consumer line', the Edge series. The trackpad is horrible beyond compare (my sister's $300 purple Acer netbook from 2009 has a better trackpad!) Everyone raves about Lenovo's keyboards this one is nice but the damn function key is the last key on the bottom left - where the control key should be. It messes me up on the laptop and now my desktop because I get confused between the two keyboards (D'Oh!)
 
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Big Dan said:
Everyone raves about Lenovo's keyboards this one is nice but the damn function key is the last key on the bottom left - where the control key should be. It messes me up on the laptop and now my desktop because I get confused between the two keyboards (D'Oh!)
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I passed an older Lenovo down to my son and that function key screws with me every time I am on his computer now.
 
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Big Dan said:
I worked with a Viao a friend of mine paid $1300 for brand new a couple years back. I wasn't very impressed. For $1200 you should have more than 4GB RAM out of the gate, IMHO. I regularity brought the machine to it's knees just running Chrome, Skype, and Firefox. Other than that the machine was fine though.

Recently, I bought a Lenovo for three reasons. 1) I've always heard good things about them. 2) A friend gave me an old Thinkpad (circa 2005) and I was really impressed with it's build quality and how well it held up over the years. I maxed out the RAM, threw Xubuntu on it, then gave it to a friend for Skyping with his grandkids. He loves it. 3) I really like the Trackpoint.

My Lenovo is decent but I didn't I was buying the 'consumer line', the Edge series. The trackpad is horrible beyond compare (my sister's $300 purple Acer netbook from 2009 has a better trackpad!) Everyone raves about Lenovo's keyboards this one is nice but the damn function key is the last key on the bottom left - where the control key should be. It messes me up on the laptop and now my desktop because I get confused between the two keyboards (D'Oh!)
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I have a Vaio I bought back in 05ish, it's still rockin'. I think they had something solid with Vaio, then they expanded it to crappy things (and in some cases, people paid alot for the name) .. and people bought them because 'Vaio' meant quality. I know lots of others with Vaio's that are still kickin' too. Maybe he got a bad machine (built on a Monday)?

I've been happy with Lenovo too, though I use an external keyboard.
 
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I'll steal Nick's format...

My DJ laptop:
  • Screen/Graphics: 16.4" - 512MB nVidia Geforce 310m
  • CPU: Intel i7-740QM (quad core - 8 threads)
  • RAM: 8GB
  • Drive: 500 GB 7200RPM
  • Brand: Sony Vaio
  • Year: 2011
  • Windows 7
My web surfing laptop:
  • Screen/Graphics: 15.6" - 1GB nVidia Geforce GT320M
  • CPU: Intel Core i3-370m
  • RAM: 4GB
  • Drive: 128 GB SSD
  • Brand: Gateway (Acer)
  • Year: 2010
  • Windows 8
I have a handful of XP and Vista machines (circa 2004-2008) that are used as DMX lighting PCs, projector PCs, backups, etc. I've got to go through them and figure out what to upgrade to Win 7 and Win 8, there is still life in them for some function. All of those are 15"-15.6" and either Compaq/HP or Toshiba.
3 Lenovo's in the house (wife's laptop, desktop PC, and photo booth PC)
 
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Cap Capello said:
All three of mine are HPs and all three are 17". All three have two 1tb internal 2.5" drives (most HP 17" units have two internal drive bays they don't tell you about), are Win 7 with 4gb ram, AMD Turion X2 Dual core 2.20ghz, with ATI HD-3200 graphics.

My home/office computer fried and for the past month or two, I've been using one of the laptops as a sub. If it weren't for the docking station feature, this would have been a nightmare of a time frame. As it is, I can take my time deciding which way to go. Thank you, HP. Unlike my previous debacles with Sony VAIOs lappies, you've been a rock.
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Hmmm. Maybe I should open my HP and look.
 
I have always heard good things about Lenovos. I used to be a Toshiba guy, but the last one I bought was disappointing. The sound quality is so bad that I can't stand to listen to it.

As far as build quality and aesthetic appeal I haven't found a Windows laptop that will come anywhere close to my Macbook Airs.
 
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Our business laptop looks like this:

HP dv4t 14"
black licorice
• Windows 8 64
• System Recovery DVD with Windows 8 64
• 3rd generation Intel Core i7-3632QM Processor (2.2GHz, 6MB L3 Cache)
• NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) GT 630M Graphics with 2GB of dedicated video memory
• 14.0" diagonal High Definition HP BrightView LED Display (1366 x 768) SVA
• 16GB DDR3 System Memory (2 Dimm)
• 500GB 7200RPM Hard Drive

All of our music is kept on a 3TB external drive.
 
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